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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – People don’t usually think of fire stations as a normal place to go for a breast cancer screenings, but four North Texas women are glad they stopped by one firehouse.

During the month of October opens houses at separate Fort Worth fire stations will also include free breast screenings.

At the first open house, held last Saturday at Fire Station 3 on Ramey Avenue, breast cancer screenings showed positive results in four women. Volunteers and workers knew the service was needed and said they just had to get the word out.

“We had some firemen in the street saying, ‘this is what we’re gonna do.’ Then they [residents] were just coming in in droves, and very gracious, and very thankful,” Joan Katz Breast Center director Sherree Bennett said of the people attending the open house.

Bennett said the goal is to find and help who normally won’t go in to the hospital for a breast screening. “We wanted to be able to take it [breast screening] out into the community,” she said. Unfortunately Bennett said breast screenings are, “Not readily available in the neighborhoods where health insurance really isn’t readily available. So it’s really important to get that information out to them.”